Would I be the person I am today without Thatcher? Would I have worked as hard as I did at school, not flinch when debating a roomful of men -- or a Fox News host live on air -- without "The Iron Lady" as an example? I doubt it.

By the former headquarters of the BBC World Service in Bush House and the London School of Economics there will be echoes from the past of some of the harshest criticism against Thatcher policies that criminalized the poor and dissolved the unions.